South of Broad: A Novel

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A big sweeping novel of friendship and marriage (The Washington Post) by the celebrated author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini

Leopold Bloom King has been raised in a family shatteredand shadowedby tragedy. Lonely and adrift, he searches for something to sustain him and finds it among a tightly knit group of outsiders. Surviving marriages happy and troubled, unrequited loves and unspoken longings, hard-won successes and devastating breakdowns, as well as Charleston, South Carolinas dark legacy of racism and class divisions, these friends will endure until a final test forces them to face something none of them are prepared for.

Spanning two turbulent decades, South of Broad is Pat Conroy at his finest: a masterpiece from a great American writer whose passion for life and language knows no bounds.

Praise for South of Broad

Vintage Pat Conroy . . . a big sweeping novel of friendship and marriage.The Washington Post

Conroy remains a magician of the page.The New York Times Book Review

Richly imagined . . . These characters are gallant in the grand old-fashioned sense, devoted to one another and to home. That siren song of place has never sounded so sweet.New Orleans Times-Picayune

A lavish, no-holds-barred performance.The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A lovely, often thrilling story.The Dallas Morning News

A pleasure to read . . . a must for Conroys fans.Associated Press


From the Hardcover edition.